Mid-20s working gal with a passion for being and living healthy…in a yummy way!

10 things to do in your free time

Ever had days upon days off of work without anything to do? Well let me give you a few ideas for next time.

1. Sweat profusely on a stationary machine. I managed a trip to our newly remodeled transferred gym that is now in the large non-air conditioned actual basketball court gym. Did that sentence make sense? In order to remodel our exercise gym, they moved all the machines, and basically “moved” our gym into the large building that used to be the basketball courts. Which means no air conditioning. How come I’m the only one who seems to sweat buckets in this world? It gets all over the machine and drips on the ground (TMI? No – you know it happens to you). Then I look around, and others have barely broken a sweat. C’mon. Please?

2. Get rid of some George Washingtons. Forever 21 stole my money. Oh wait, never mind. I gave it to them willingly. What would I wear this sweater drapy tank top thiny with? It’s cute, but I’m at a loss.

And I think I’m heading back today to pick up a different shirt I saw. I hate you Forever 21. Leave me and my wallet in peace!

3. Change your skin color. I’m now 2 shades darker than I was yesterday thanks to the Mr. Sun’s golden rays. Yes, I know. Skin cancer and all that jazz. Don’t worry, I sunscreen it up, and only sit out for about an hour just to enhance my knowledge by reading these very informative articles:

4. Bake and eat your weight in goodies. I baked some strawberry banana sour cream bread muffins (I really need to buy a loaf pan) using this recipe. Didn’t turn out nearly as good as the last recipe I used. These were beyond mushy and kind of bland. Oh wait – no fat in them. That could very well possibly be why.

Later, I attempted the currently blog-popular Montanna Whoppers. I had no chocolate chips or mini M&M’s, but I did have peanut M&M’s. Suggestion: they do not work. The dough was bland and really tasteless to me. And the M&M’s were too big for the cookies, so they didn’t go so well.

Chicken shawarma, hummus & pine nut platter with tabouleh. Also consumed a very large, warm & doughy, empty calorie white bread pita. I don’t like to think of things like this as “empty calories”. Sure, they’re not as “nutrionally beneficial” as whole wheat, but as long as it’s something I want and enjoy, why are they empty? I believe it filled me up quite nicely ;-)

The rest of the night I snacked on doughy reese’s brownies. Yes – you read that right. Cue dropped jaw….now.

6. Make friends with the mailman. Mailed out my Special K treatment package!! A little on the late side, but it’s out there in mail-world and on its way!

Yes getting mail is something to do in your free time. Apparently. Because I receieved a little somethin’ somethin’ from Miss Holly!!

As soon as I started reading her cute little note – I knew it was from the creative gal herself. ;-) And I am in love with the cute ribbons! Thank you Holly!! :-D

7. Grow a polar bear. How’s my little guy doing? Well I think Lars (what I named him – obviously) is done growing.

Much smaller than I was expecting. But still a cutie patooty. He has now won the honor of joining my polar bear community (yes – I collect polar bear things and even have a polar bear Christmas tree during the holidays. Just wait and see).

Tossing and turning at 3 am? You can also stumble downstairs and make your own PB mix. (I sound like an infomercial). Getting a little tired of plain PB, I mixed it with raisins, a bit of agave, and cinnamon. Then I got the beyond brilliant idea to add pumpkin pie spice. So I did. Nothing better than pumpkin spice raisin PB made at 3 in the mornin’.

I felt awesome during my run. So awesome, in fact, that I just picked up speed and cruised right along until I realized that my knee was really bothering me around mile 3.5-4. I felt strong at that pace, but knew I needed to slooooooow it down for my knee. My time was pretty good for it to include about 1/2 mile of walking in there! But I need to slow down. Gaah.

11. Get drunk.I mean…we shall pretend I didn’t say that, and just stick to a list of 10, okay? Although our friends are having a back to school shin-dig tonight, and I fully intend to be hungover tomorrow. Not that I want that, but I get hungover after almost any amount of alcohol enters my system (blech), so we’ll see how it goes. It’s my last “last week of summer” ya hear?

If you made it through my massive list – congratulations. You won….well you won the joy of reading yet another of my posts in the future. I promise I’ll try and keep them shorter. Have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous start to your weekend!

Great list with great eats! Sorry about those muffins :-( A little fat(2 tbsp) goes a long way and really can make all the difference, especially if you use a veggie puree like carrot or pumpkin.
And sunflower hummus does sound good!

I’m sorry to hear your attempts at baking didn’t work out and hope you try the Montana Whoppers recipe again when you have chocolate chips, mini M&Ms, etc. They really add flavor to the dough which, as you pointed out, can taste really plain without the additional ingredients. Try, try again!

I am terrible when I bake anything – muffins, cookies, you name it, I will eat my bodyweight in it until it is gone. I mean, that’s really the whole fun right?! Huh.
Love your big bowls of yogurt love, don’t you worry!
Way to go on the run – it is officially the best thing to feel strong and awesome!
And yay for packages – Holly is such a star; love the hand written notes!
Have fun getting drunk! Haha

Ahh sorry about your less than stellar baking! I hate when I bake something and then it turns out sub-par.. but those cookies do look really good!!

All of your other eats look absolutely FANTASTIC… I LOVE your greek yogurt mess! Haha, don’t worry about being repetitive with them, I don’t think I’ve written a post in the past YEAR that hasn’t had greek yogurt in some form!!

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